Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:22:14 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Muller Petr <pmuller@bpz.muzlin.cz>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition Message-ID: <20021214025214.GG503@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212131908070.41972-100000@wonkity.com> References: <20021214004330.GA503@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212131908070.41972-100000@wonkity.com>
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On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 19:16:26 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 17:38:42 -0700, Warren Block wrote: >>> On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> >>>> What do you mean by "better"? What's the purpose of the clone? >>> >>> Ghost copies every block of partitions with filesystems it doesn't >>> understand. >> >> So does dd. But that's pretty much what he said he didn't want to do. > > Right. "Better" would be a program that understands the filesystem and > *doesn't* copy unused blocks. Partimage is like that. As I say, it depends on what you want to do. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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